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Re: How many wrongs do you need to make a right?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Wed Aug 17 11:06:30 2005

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From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: adam@cypherspace.org, smb@cs.columbia.edu
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, fw@deneb.enyo.de,
	pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
In-Reply-To: <20050817135152.GA8408@bitchcake.off.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 02:08:27 +1200

Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org> writes:

>Not to defend PKI, but what about delta-CRLs?

You mean something like 
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/CaleyD/turd_polish.jpg ?

They don't work, no matter how much polish you apply.  See e.g.
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/notdead.pdf.

Peter.

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